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Pie filling squares with meringue

Filed Under: Cooking with canning

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These squares provide a different way to use your home-canned pie fillings. They’re less fuss than rolling out pie crusts, and fewer calories as well.

A version here has an oatmeal layer for topping instead of meringue: Pie filling squares with oatmeal.

This recipe uses:

  • Home-canned pie filling
  • Oatmeal pancake DIY mix
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  • 1 The recipe
  • 2 Pie filling squares with meringue
    • 2.1 Ingredients
    • 2.2 Instructions
    • 2.3 Notes
  • 3 Alternative base
  • 4 Notes
  • 5 Nutrition

The recipe

Oven temperature: 175 C / 350 F

Yield: 9 squares

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Pie filling squares with meringue

Easy to make pie squares that can be made very Weight-Watcher® friendly!
Servings 9 squares
Metric - US Customary

Ingredients

  • 300 g oatmeal pancake mix (2 cups / 10 oz by weight, or see sub below)
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar (or white sugar, or Splenda®)
  • ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon (or ground nutmeg. Optional)
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 4 tablespoons butter (softened. Or marg, or light marg)
  • 1 half-litre sour cherry pie filling (1 pint. Any flavour is fine!)
  • 4 egg whites (½ cup / 125 ml)
  • ¼ teaspoon Cream of tartar
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 4 tablespoons white sugar (or Splenda®)
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Start oven heating to 175 C / 350 F.
  • Mix everything from the oatmeal dry mix down to the butter to form a crumble.
  • Pack into a greased 20 cm / 8" square pan.
  • Spread pie filling out on top.
  • Bake 30 mins at 175 C / 350 F.
  • Meanwhile, beat egg whites till they form a stiff peak, then add cream of tartar, vanilla, and sugar, and beat for 1 minute more to make a meringue.
  • When the 30 minutes is up, remove squares from oven and spread the meringue on top the pie mixture.
  • Bake at 175 C / 350 F for about 7 more minutes or until the meringue is golden brown.
  • Let cool before slicing into squares.

Notes

Store in fridge, covered with plastic film or tin foil (without a covering, the meringue will dry out after a day or two.)

Alternative base

Instead of pancake mix for base, you can make a base from the following:

1 cup rolled oats
½ cup flour (white or whole-wheat)
3 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 tablespoons soft butter or marg

Notes

Use any type of home-canned pie filling you wish.

Nutrition

Varies based on pie filling you are using.

Filed Under: Cooking with canning

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